profligates
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Discreet to the point of evasive, they have tended to greet press inquiries with silence, or with expressions of sorrow that some observers might damn them as profligates, or with a harrumph of how-did-you-get-this-number disgruntlement.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019
Working above Mistress Humphrey's print shop in Piccadilly where his etchings sold for 18 pence, Gillray had scorched the court of George III with his acid portrayals of spendthrift profligates and pompous politicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates.
From Time Magazine Archive
The legend of Don Juan was invented by a Spanish monk in the 16th Century nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even common profligates and rogues, when other lesser villainies had failed, assumed the hypocritical semblance of some peculiar religion, and enjoyed their day of popularity.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
